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IAS and its members have worked globally to successfully accomplish its founding missions and goals to: introduce Sufism in all its varied forms to the public; make known the interrelation between Sufi principles and scientific principles; provide a forum for a continuing dialogue between the different schools of Sufism; preserve and advance the study and goals of Sufism.
Sufism is the mystical branch of Islam in which Muslims seek divine love and truth through direct personal experience of God. [1] This mystic tradition within Islam developed in several stages of growth, emerging first in the form of early asceticism, based on the teachings of Hasan al-Basri, before entering the second stage of more classical mysticism of divine love, as promoted by al-Ghazali ...
His procedure was to approach the chief of a Sufi group and say, 'Teach me your method, share it with me. If you will not, I invite you to share mine.'" [1] One of the order's distinguished masters was the 16th century Sufi, [7] Shah Muhammad Ghawth (d. 1562/3 C.E.) (14th Ramadan 970 hijri).
The Maryamiyya Order is a tariqa or Sufi order founded by Sheikh Isa Nur ad-Din–Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998). It is a branch of the Shadhiliyya-Darqawiyya-Alawiyya order, with communities in Europe, the Americas and the Islamic world. Its doctrine is based on what it understands to be the universal truths of pure esoterism, and its method ...
Another organization, known as Sufi Contact, was founded by the Dutch Sufi proponent Gauri Voute. Its structure is strictly egalitarian; hence, there is no central leader. [ citation needed ] Samuel Lewis founded a California-based organization named Sufi Islamia Ruhaniat Society .
Abdul Khaliq Ghijduwani (d. 1179), prominent sheikh whose teachings became known as the way of the Khwajas (teachers) or Khwajagan (masters). Abdur Rehman Shah Sailani (1871–1906), Sufi saint. Baha al-Din Shah Naqshband (1318–1389), the founder of the Sufi Naqshbandi Order. Khwaja Ahrar (1404-1490 AD), Naqshbdandi Sufi master and Islamic ...
Sufism (Arabic: الصوفية, romanized: al-Ṣūfiyya or Arabic: التصوف, romanized: al-Taṣawwuf) is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, and asceticism.
In an article in The Guardian, Jason Webster is also of the opinion that the Sufi Way, as it is known, is a natural antidote to fanaticism. [ 3 ] Webster states that classical Islamic Sufis include (amongst many others) the poet and Persian polymath Omar Khayyám , the Andalusian polymath Avërroes , the Persian poet and hagiographer Fariduddin ...